Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps
Posted on May 10, 2008 - Filed Under aid, global, mapping, weather | Leave a Comment
IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed
[As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most importantly […]
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under blurbs, global, government, travel | Leave a Comment
In my last post, I mentioned the possibility of travelling to Myanmar later this year to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis rebuild. Thanks to the latest actions of the military “leadership” there, Americans may not be let in until then.
Read More..>>Day 984: The Victims Of Cyclone Nargis
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under global, government | 8 Comments
Last week, D and I watched a Discovery Channel program which traced the Ganges all the way from its Himalayan headwaters to the Brahmaputra delta of southern Bangladesh. While talking about the Sundarbans, the fertile estuarine environment where the river meets the sea, much like Southern Louisiana and the Mississippi delta, the narrator mentioned a […]
Read More..>>Day 982: Laura Bush Should Know All About “Inept” Responses
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, global, government | Leave a Comment
On our way to and from Jazzfest, many of us have the opportunity to walk through formerly-flood-ravaged portions of MidCity. Do you notice in the spraypainted Xs that many houses were not visited by boat until September 11th, 2005, almost two weeks after much of New Orleans was submerged? How would you rate the disaster response of […]
Read More..>>Day 976: America’s Continuing Battle With Necessity And Innovation
Posted on April 30, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, education, global, government, science & technology | 1 Comment
ZDNet: Indian techies snubbing US jobs to stay home
Indian tech graduates are increasingly turning their back on western countries in favor of finding work at home … Between 1964 and 2001 the number of IITians staying in India was 65 per cent but this jumped to 84 per cent between 2002 and 2008.
I suspect most of […]
Day 973: River, Lake, Fossil, Rock, River
Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under geology, pictures, travel | 4 Comments
A Very Full Mississippi In Memphis
Lake Mendota And Picnic Point From The Edgewater Hotel
University of Wisconsin Geology Museum’s Latest Trilobite Acquisition
Rare Botryoidal Fluorite
Bonnet Carré Spillway
Day 968: Sporadic Blogging Ahead
Posted on April 22, 2008 - Filed Under pictures, travel | Leave a Comment
The rest of the week will see me in Houston and Madison on business. I hope to catch up with Scout when in Mad-town and will report back with results. Until the next post, here are a couple of sobering photos I took recently.
Click on photos to enlarge.
Read More..>>Day 963: “But I’m Showing My Support For Tibet”
Posted on April 17, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, global, government | 4 Comments
Melvin Durai takes a swing at the Beijing Olympics
… Inspired by [Aamir] Khan, long jumper Anju Bobby George announced that she will protest China’s human rights abuses by participating in the Beijing Olympics. “I am participating in the Olympics not in support of China,” she said, “but with a prayer in my heart for the people […]
Day 923: Musical Dilemma
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under music, new orleans, travel | 1 Comment
On Friday, April 25th, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will play the Jazzfest in support of their album, Raising Sand. Plant and Krauss work well together even though they didn’t write any of the songs, a matter easily overlooked thanks to their two great voices and T Bone Burnett’s production genius. I’ve always liked both artists independently, […]
Read More..>>Day 921: Every Ting Be Eire, Mon!
Posted on March 5, 2008 - Filed Under culture-society-history, family & friends, food & drink, geology, global, pictures, recovery, travel | 2 Comments
Last Saturday, 1100 miles away on the island of Jamaica, I turned the same age as Jesus and John Belushi when they died. Perhaps this will be the year a woman breaks into the Stonecutters Freemasons and is then promptly axed. Axed to leave, that is.
For one week, our friends, Olga, Osbourne and Salome, took six […]
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